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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

I've been wanting to make a Bumble Bee themed birthday card for a few months now. I've been holding onto my "Buzz and Bumble" paper pack scraps and keeping a pile of supplies on the surface of my work space. Then along came the perfect sketch at "Seize The Sketch" blog challenge #3! It was time to get serious!

Hexagon Sketch, need I say more?!

TaDa! Bees and honeycombs!

Love this sentiment: "Buzzing with good wishes!"

I stamped the Bee is Cocoa ink and colored it in with yellow and white colored pencils. Then added line accents with white gel pen on the white colored pencil.

"Laughing Lola" from Close To My Heart was such a fun Workshop On The Go kit to create with! I taught a class in August with it and wanted to share my designs on my blog so that they can be found by those who are browsing for ideas.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Welcome to the Close to My Heart National Stamping Month Blog Hop. If you arrived here from Maria's Blog: "Stamp Momma" you are on the right track!

We have over 20 hoppers for this exclusive stamp set trio, "You are My Happy!"
The blog is a great big circle so you can start anywhere and hop your
way through. If you get lost along the way, you can find the complete
list of hoppers here.

You can purchase this exclusive You Are My Happy stamp set trio for
$10 when you make a purchase of $50 or more! With a full retail value of
$47.90, this exclusive (limited time), whimsical stamp set trio is three times the
fun. You Are My Happy includes three adorable, coordinating stamp sets
on three D-size carrier sheets. They will arrive at your home in two
stamp envelopes, one carrier sheet in one envelope and two carrier
sheets in the other envelope. Your trio
includes:

One alphabet (upper and lowercase)

One sheet of nine encouraging, friendship sentiments

One sheet of 15 cheerful images great for a variety of life’s occasions

These three stamp sets have been designed stylistically to work together
for creating darling cards, layouts, and 3-D projects for a variety of
occasions. The alphabet is adorable and usable on both feminine and masculine
pages equally. The icons are cute and whimsical, but my FAVORITE stamps in the
trio are the beautiful sentiments that work both for cards and scrapbook
pages!

I made this cute 2 page scrapbook layout – I found the sketch that inspired it on "Let's Scrap".

The theme of my layout is "IceCream Truck!". I wanted to feature my favorite stamp sentiment which reads "Good times are even better when they are shared". Who doesn't mind sharing ice cream!? I also used my CTMH Sarita Workshops On The Go Kit!